incidence
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 9
Definition of incidence
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of something happening; occurrence.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of something happening; occurrence.
- (countable, uncountable)The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
- (countable, uncountable)The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
- (countable, uncountable)The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
- (countable, uncountable)A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
- (countable, uncountable)The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
- (countable, uncountable)The relation between an edge of a graph and one of the vertices it connects.
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Etymology
From Middle French incidence, from Medieval Latin incidentia (“a falling upon”), from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (“to fall upon”), from in (“on”) + cadere (“to fall”).
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